Question about extracting ILVU-vobs

[CareFree]

I'm in the process of backing up a movie where I need to use a rather heavy degrain-filter. If I save the filter-processed material with a lossless codec before encoding, rather than letting the filter do it's work on every cce-pass, I'd save a lot of time. But I've noticed that DVD-RB extracts ILVU-vobs during encoding and then deletes them.
Now what I'm wondering is if there is a way for me to manually extract those ILVU's so I can filter them before I let DVD-RB do it's magic.
Or maybe there's a hidden setting that stops DVD-RB from deleting the vobs? Ofcourse, the nicest alternative would be if DVD-RB could extract the ILVU-vobs before the encoding process.

[jdobbs]

Add this to the "[Options]" area of your REBUILDER.INI:

PERSISTENT_ILVU_VOBS=1

I actually created that one so I could use it to debug ILVU encoding.

It would be a good idea to remove it after you're done. On some very heavily ILVU discs it can double the required disc space needed.

[CareFree]

Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a try later today. :-)

[CareFree]

That worked like a charm!

While we're on the subject, here's an idea. Why not include all the hidden settings in the rebuiler.ini with a '#' in front of of them? Than it would be easy to do a search here on doom9 and check if it's the one your after and just erase the '#'.
Or maybe that would result in a lot of n00bs asking for advice after unknowlingly enabled settings that they shouldn't have been messing around with anyway.

Just a thought. Cheers!

[jdobbs]

The "hidden" settings are "hidden" for a reason. I want them to to be hard to find and hard to set. They typically can have damaging effects, sometimes causing failure, and are meant to be used only by advanced users. The minute I do as you ask I will be inundated with complaints saying "If you didn't want me to use it, why did you add it to the INI file?"

Unfortunately I've been down that road before...

[CareFree]

Ok. Point taken.

[jdobbs]

:cool:

[laserfan]

The "hidden" settings are "hidden" for a reason. I want them to to be hard to find and hard to set. They typically can have damaging effects, sometimes causing failure, and are meant to be used only by advanced users. The minute I do as you ask I will be inundated with complaints saying "If you didn't want me to use it, why did you add it to the INI file?"

Unfortunately I've been down that road before...It would be nice though to have this information documented somewhere other than in random posts. Maybe a troubleshooting section in the docs or some such (only "advanced users" ever bother to try to read & understand docs! ;)), along with the warnings or caveats as you see fit.

Maybe this has already been done in which case I apologize in advance. I do suspect though that n00bs find snippets of info in threads, try these things, and then the residue from their trials exists (in the INI file) as something of a time bomb.

For my own part (not a n00b but no expert either) whenever I add one of these "secret hidden settings" to my INI file, for whatever reason, I also put some comments in there for my own benefit e.g.:

#This is for DVD+R DL discs, about 110Meg less than the full 4173824 (as PgcEdit says is DL)
#TargetSectors=4116776
#By removing the pound sign, then RB leaves the layer break alone (for DL discs)
#LAYER_BREAK_REMOVAL=0
#Resets the Seamless Playback flag for a cell, even if SCR is reset and/or audio is padded
#May cause a freeze at this position!
AGGRESSIVE_LAYER_BREAK_REMOVAL=1

FWIW! :D

[Trahald]

in dvdrb help. under menus&settings->hidden_settings

although some of the newer ones arent there.

[Rockas]

in dvdrb help. under menus&settings->hidden_settings

although some of the newer ones arent there.
No they aren't :(
And that is my fault... I started an updated Help file months ago... in the mean time my day jobs got harder so I have the files waiting for some real free time so I can finish them.

Sorry about that :o

[laserfan]

Sorry about that :oNo need to apologize. Indeed, thanks for the reminder that you (and jdobbs no doubt) have "day jobs" and we are all to be grateful for the efforts you make, to our benefit.

:thanks: :thanks: :thanks: